Priyanka Mohite from western Maharashtra’s Satara has become the first Indian woman climber to scale Mt Annapurna, the 10th highest peak in the world, reported PTI.
Her employer, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited shared the news of her achievement.
In a tweet, Shaw said that she was very proud of her colleague, Priyanka Mohite, who became the first Indian woman to scale the peak on 16 April 2021.
Shaw also shared a photo of Mohite holding the Tricolour atop the peak.
Mount Annapurna, which is considered to be one of the toughest to scale, is a massif in the Himalayas in Nepal that includes one peak over 8,000 metres.
As a teenager, Priyanka started to scale mountains in the Sahyadri range of Maharashtra.
Her brother Akash Mohite told PTI that Priyanka scaled Bandarpunch, a mountain massif of the Garhwal division of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand in 2012.
Priyanka in 2015 had scaled Mt Menthosa, which, at 6,443 metres, is the second-highest peak in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.
The 28-year-old Bengaluru-based climber is a recipient of the Maharashtra Government’s Shiv Chhatrapati State Award for adventure sports for 2017-2018.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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